Most Long Island homes wired by national providers can be taken over by a local alarm company in a single visit — without ripping sensors out of the walls. Here's exactly what changes, what stays, and what it costs to switch to a no-contract, locally-owned monitoring plan.
The system on your wall is usually fine. The problem is who's monitoring it and what you're paying every month.
National providers raise rates every renewal. Local monitoring stays flat — usually 40–60% less per month.
Month-to-month monitoring. Cancel any time without an early-termination penalty.
When a battery dies at midnight or you false-alarm on vacation, you reach a person who knows your house.
Westbury-based. We're in Nassau, Suffolk, and Queens the same week — often the same day for active issues.
Find your last monitoring agreement. We'll read it with you and tell you exactly when you're free to cancel — and whether the math still works if you're inside the term.
We test every sensor on your existing system: door contacts, motions, glass-breaks, smokes. Anything in spec stays. Anything dead or out-of-date gets quoted in writing before we touch it.
We replace the control panel and keypads with current-generation hardware, reprogram every sensor to the new panel, and connect to our UL-listed central station. Typically 2–3 hours.
Once the new system is armed and tested, you cancel the old account. We give you a written confirmation of the cutover date so there's no double billing.
A takeover is rarely a rip-and-replace. The sensors in your walls are standard hardware — the panel and keypads are the part that's locked to the old monitoring company.
Free, no-pressure takeover assessment anywhere in Nassau, Suffolk, or Queens. You'll know exactly what stays, what gets replaced, and what you'll save — in writing — before you cancel a thing.